SC-350: Wasatchian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Paramys taurus
Korth 1984
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Mammalia
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Miacis winkleri
Gingerich 1983
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recombined as Gracilocyon winkleri | |||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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cf. Plastomenus sp.
Cope 1873
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Melanosaurus maximus
Gilmore 1928
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Leidyosuchus sp.
Lambe 1907
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= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Alroy 2007 | ||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
Coordinates: | 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 49.2° North, 91.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Wasatchian | ||
Age range of interval: | 55.80000 - 50.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 2 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | UMMP |
Taxonomic list comments:Wa-0 |
Metadata
Database number: | 15833 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:31:07 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1657. | P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |